If boats aren’t your thing for Seattle’s Opening Day, how about a 26-foot-high, 8-ton, Egyptian jackal-headed protector of the afterlife? He’ll be floating through Portage Bay on a very long barge as the finale of the parade that goes from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. But you may bow down now and call him Anubis.
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If you liked that video, you’ll like this conversation on the Reddit group r/Seattle. Subject line: “So, what ridiculous Supervillainry do you hope Rex Velvet gets up to?”

A few grumpsters point out that it’s not like he’s a real super villain – what could be really do? (Thanks, guys. We didn’t realize this was a gag until you pointed it out. ) But some others have some pretty pithy suggestions for how Rex could defeat Phoenix and cast Seattle into the depths of despair.

For nearly a decade, the Funhouse in lower Queen Anne has been many things: Gritty dive bar, sweaty punk venue, the place with the creepy clown head near the Monorail. But in six months, the popular club will have to move to make way for a proposed seven-story apartment building. “I am sad to report […]
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‘Tis the season for tourists. Good luck finding a parking spot near Pike Place Market — yes, that’s where the original Starbucks is located. Just look for the folk singers making bank outside.

Just in time for the droves of people, we asked seattlepi.com readers to help us compile a list of tips for tourists who want to blend in. Here are some of their best pieces of advice, gathered from Twitter and Facebook.

Four white dwarf stars detected by the Hubble Space Telescope are giving researchers an ominous peek into the fate of the Earth.

It goes something like this: Sure is getting warm around here. Whoa, do you feel destabilized? BOOM.

OK, it’s a little more complicated than that. The white dwarfs were scrutinized by astrophysicists at the University of Warwick, who determined that most of the dust and debris being sucked into the stars’ gravitational pull was comprised of material also found in Earth’s building blocks